https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/[email protected]/T/#u

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM Wenjie Qi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   I see. The old patch assumed compressed writeback should follow the
>   F2FS_WB_CP_DATA path because the current code accounts it that way.
>
>   After rechecking it, I agree that stopping checkpoint from this path
> is not
>   the right fix.
>
>   I sent a separate patch to fix the accounting side instead:
>
>   f2fs: account compressed writeback by raw folio type
>
>   It derives the writeback count type from the raw pagecache folio, so normal
>   compressed writeback stays in F2FS_WB_DATA, while gcing/CP-guaranteed raw
>   folios still use F2FS_WB_CP_DATA.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 4:24 AM Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/25, Wenjie Qi wrote:
> > > Compressed data writes are accounted as F2FS_WB_CP_DATA because they
> > > write compressed pages through fio->compressed_page.  Their end_io path
> > > should therefore have the same checkpoint-stop behavior as ordinary
> > > F2FS_WB_CP_DATA writes.
> > >
> > > However, f2fs_compress_write_end_io() only records -EIO in the inode
> > > mapping when the bio fails.  The filesystem can keep checkpointing after
> > > that failure, so a later checkpoint may persist metadata that points to
> > > compressed data blocks whose writeback failed.
> > >
> > > Stop checkpointing with STOP_CP_REASON_WRITE_FAIL for failed compressed
> > > F2FS_WB_CP_DATA writes, matching the ordinary data write end_io path.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/f2fs/compress.c | 5 ++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/compress.c b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> > > index caf522d667d6..9b1501004456 100644
> > > --- a/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
> > > @@ -1488,8 +1488,11 @@ void f2fs_compress_write_end_io(struct bio *bio, 
> > > struct folio *folio)
> > >                               f2fs_is_compressed_page(folio));
> > >       int i;
> > >
> > > -     if (unlikely(bio->bi_status != BLK_STS_OK))
> > > +     if (unlikely(bio->bi_status != BLK_STS_OK)) {
> > >               mapping_set_error(cic->inode->i_mapping, -EIO);
> > > +             if (type == F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)
> >
> > It turns out the type should not be F2FS_WB_CP_DATA.
> >
> > > +                     f2fs_stop_checkpoint(sbi, true, 
> > > STOP_CP_REASON_WRITE_FAIL);
> > > +     }
> > >
> > >       f2fs_compress_free_page(page);
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.43.0
> > >
> > >
> > >
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